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Could someone post http://www.staplermofo.com/farktography/eyes1.jpg
and http://www.staplermofo.com/farktography/eyes2.jpg for me?

I’ll get em for ya.

You banninated?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnwf2RShNV0

ok that’s funny…to me anyway. My wife just gave the quizzical dog look.

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In other news, FSM isn’t picking up this contest.

I am so sorry about that. In the future, a PM to me usually will get my attention.

It’s ok. We’ll let it slide.

this time.

😀

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I beg to differ. Done correctly with the right equipment it is an amazing way to take pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfduggan/sets/1359738/

(not mine)

I’ll agree, but this is a farktography thread. Few people here have the time, nor should be expected to put in the time, for something that is supposed to be fun and easy to participate in.
This was the worst contest ever. Yes it was a challange, had I had more time I would have made a rig with a ground glass and could have gotten elaborate. But again, I have a clue. Most farkers do not. That is why there are only 40 entries, and a few of them are questionable. There are also off topic pics which did not get deleted, but I had some comments that were, even though I did not thread jack. 🙄 (now I see it was some comments that I replied to that were general farktography questions and that I was thanked for replying to 🙄 🙄 )

The farktography threads have gotten to be a mutual admiration society, and that’s why I stopped participating. If you aren’t in the clicue, then the rules are applied differently. That was brought up in the uberthread about moderation , what, a month or two ago?

If you want to have a contest like that here, fine. If you want to behave that way here, fine. But taking it to fark.com is pretty pathetic.

I could go on and on, since you hate me anyway and I really don’t care whether you do or not, but I have other things to do today. Glad I got that off my chest

Chill out dude. Nobody’s hating.

I agree this theme is tougher than most but so what?
Why not have a challenging theme once in a while. If every week was cute kitty pics what would the fun be? We’d all get pretty bored and nobody would participate.

Pinhole cameras are exactly what farkography is about. You don’t even need a camera to participate.If you wanted to you could make one for about 5 bucks and 15 minutes of your day. (35mm film ,cardboard box , duct tape, pin).

I think it’s too bad so many people got scared away by the theme.

Oh well.

Next week is an easy theme.

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Okay all you technical Farkers. Here’s what this novice did. Tell me if I can enter my photos. First, I have been told how easy it is to get dust in your camera when taking the lens off. So it did not do that. I took construction paper, go ahead and laugh, cut a circle, folded it and folded it again to find the middle. Poked a hole in the middle with a needle. Hole was too small to show anything. Read Soosh’s suggestion that digital may need a larger hole and did that. Adhered it directly on the lens. Put the camera on manual, played with the f-stop, focused and took pictures. I like the way they turned out. Kinda whispy looking. But you need to tell me if I can enter them.

Yeah a “pinhole” is really a misnomer. They usually are quite large. It sounds like what you have done are valid images. The thing with pinhole cameras is they tend to be very distored, depoending on the back, and out of focus because of the relatively large apeture and lack of (omst time) fucosing adjustment.

I beg to differ. Done correctly with the right equipment it is an amazing way to take pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfduggan/sets/1359738/

(not mine)

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A hole stuck on the front of a lens in most cases is going to produce mechanical vignetting rather than functioning as a pinhole aperture (basically just blocking out light from the edges of the image). You can tell that NoBigDeal’s example isn’t working as a pinhole because the background is out of focus and the foreground is sharp. If the hole was functioning as an aperture it would all be more or less the same sharpness (or unsharpness)

Some lenses are designed so the aperture is near/at the front of the lens (like the lensbabies), in which case you could produce pinhole images by adding a pinhole aperture to the front of the lens, but the results would look like they were shot with a pinhole camera.

I doubt that I am going to use those shots. Even though they are shot through a pinhole they are not true pinhole shots. The ones where I adjusted the aperture & focal length to just show what comes through the hole are pretty close though.

I’ll probably pick the least bad three that I used a true pinhole.

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How did you do the dog shot again?

I took a piece of construction paper cut it to the size of the lens, poked a small hole in it and put it behind a uv filter.

So in effect I had a pinhole lens , sorta, kinda

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Okay all you technical Farkers. Here’s what this novice did. Tell me if I can enter my photos. First, I have been told how easy it is to get dust in your camera when taking the lens off. So it did not do that. I took construction paper, go ahead and laugh, cut a circle, folded it and folded it again to find the middle. Poked a hole in the middle with a needle. Hole was too small to show anything. Read Soosh’s suggestion that digital may need a larger hole and did that. Adhered it directly on the lens. Put the camera on manual, played with the f-stop, focused and took pictures. I like the way they turned out. Kinda whispy looking. But you need to tell me if I can enter them.

It’s fine by me. It’s not unlike the pinhole I made with one of the aperture disks on my Lensbaby. This is such a specialized contest, that I think we need to allow for any and all methods of producing a pinhole picture, whether that involves a lens or not, special camera, film or digital, whatever. Turnout’s likely to be low as it is, so I would prefer to err on the side of inclusion. Unless Killerclaw raises a serious objection, I don’t think any good faith effort at pinhole photography should be disqualified.

Good because I’d rather use this

than this

even though the second one is a true pinhole the dust on my sensor is ruining all the shots I am taking.

🙂

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Okay all you technical Farkers. Here’s what this novice did. Tell me if I can enter my photos. First, I have been told how easy it is to get dust in your camera when taking the lens off. So it did not do that. I took construction paper, go ahead and laugh, cut a circle, folded it and folded it again to find the middle. Poked a hole in the middle with a needle. Hole was too small to show anything. Read Soosh’s suggestion that digital may need a larger hole and did that. Adhered it directly on the lens. Put the camera on manual, played with the f-stop, focused and took pictures. I like the way they turned out. Kinda whispy looking. But you need to tell me if I can enter them.

Thats is similar to what I did this summer just messing around. If you look at my earlier post you see an example.It kind of gives a bit of a Holgaish effect.

As for if it is acceptable, nobody ever ruled it out when I brought it up the first time.

Kilerclaw? Elsinore?

I have been playing with the pinhole lens cap but am still not overjoyed with anything yet.
I think pinhole photography is better suited to film but I don’t have the time to shoot off a roll and develop it before tomorrow.

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I made a 1/2 ass pinhole lens today at work.

Results seem to be typical for everyone else.

There has got to be a way to use this effect artistically, I just don’t know if I will have time.

Examples:

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Too bad it’s a Nikon 😉

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Nice shots!

Can’t help you with placement but you definitely need to use the NYC shot.

Way cool!

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lol in the morning I have to get up and make mashed potatoes to take to Mom’s. This was not good timing on my Doctor’s part 😛

Every time i get a flu shot I get the flu. 🙁

On another note my grandson just sneezed on the turkey and then threw up all over the floor.

Thanksgiving is shaping up wonderful this year!

At least he didn’t barf on the bird

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Flickr is a bit prudish toward nudity. They will restrict accounts with naked shots.

Pbase is more of an anything goes site.

How is Zooomr for reliability?

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I must admit, I don’t quite get this theme. Is is a dusk theme? a bedtime theme? an evening theme? or all of the above? All I have to submit is stuff that I photographed at those times of day.

My thoughts on this theme is what you interpret as the end of the day.

All those you listed are fine.

Could be a shot of a TV with Jay Leno on or a kid in their PJ’s drinking a glass of milk before bed etc…

The only thing forbidden is sunset pictures.

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